When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.
Action thrillers assail but rarely test us; this is the tautest, most provoking, and altogether most draining example ever made.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
30 Jul 2013
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This film is also the best monster movie of the year and the best picture of any kind to open so far this summer. Put it another way: Aliens is the Jaws of the '80s.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
30 Jul 2013
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It's blaster action, not Gothic future-horror. Fortunately, director-screenwriter James Cameron has shaped his film around the defiant intelligence and sensual athleticism of Weaver, and that's where Aliens works best.
– Sheila Benson,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jul 2013
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[Aliens] is a spectacular example of state-of-the-art science fiction simply because it never tries to be overtly spectacular.
– Desmond Ryan,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
30 Jul 2013
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Scene to scene, encounter to encounter, its tension builds unrelentingly. So, fasten your seat belts. It`s a blast.